Dazey High School - Log Yearbook (Dazey, ND)

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ww was marked, Radio station WDAY first started commercial broadcasting on May 22, 1922 and here in Dazey the first radio sets began to appear- Althfillgh there is a difference of opinion as to just who had the first set in town, I'll toss the bouquet to Leonard Larson, who got his first set in 1922. Those sets were cumber- some things. As soon as there were a few Sets in town people would gather 'at various spots about town to spend an evellillg trying to get something 011 the radio. The earphones, the queer looking speakers, and the Piercing Sfll13WlS that came from the instrument from' time to time must have Dfovided an adventurous evening. In, 1923 the newspapei-5'br0ke the news of the frightful murder of little Bobby Frank and the subsequent' trial of the youthful killers, Leopold and Loeb. America rocked to the tune of YeS, we have T10 1321112111215- At this time the State Bank in Dazey closed its doors and a Y0ll11g high school girl by the name of Kate Smith was dogng a little Singing down east, She prob. ably featured such a song as It had to be You . 1924 gave us a big crop and the Tim.eswReco1'd for February 25, 1924 featured a headline which read, General Ludendorf will be tried for treason with Adolph Hitler . The issue of the -twenty l'liIl't11 reverted the t0I'1'id final game of the Barnes County basketball tournament ill which Daley defeated the Baldwin team 6-4. At half time the Baldwin team led 2-1. The girls also participated in the county tourney. All-tournament select- ions named Art Nelson 'and Laurence Olson to the boys all-county team and Ger- aldine Torguson was named 'to the all-county girls basketball team of that year.

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Amv vNmwv f- . . ,vefeA,-vxAA,-.AA,v-s vmwA AAAA This meant that the skirts were flying of the scandalous height of nine inches above the ground. Ground, that is. The last item. in -the -above paragraph is indicative of what was going to hap- pen during the newly innauguated period of the Roaring Twentiesf' Yes indeed, it would be interesting to know what -the above mentioned writer would have had to say if he had known just how high those -skirts were destined to go dur- ing the next ten years. Although the bearing on DHS is difficult to imagine, a comment or two about this decade, which historians have come to call -the decade of bad manners , might be interesting. The lady of 1920 probably used some powder, but the beauty and cosmetic business had not yet 'come into its own- Rouge, lipstick were still some-thing of an unsavory character, By the end of the decade 'there were to be 2500 brands of perfume on the market and over 1500 br-ands of face cream. One historian states that if all the lipstck sold in the year 1927 were laid end to end, they would reach from New York to Reno, Nevada. That, to many of that era, seemed like a likely destination. In that era Lister- ine became known as being more -than a plain disinfectant. Do you remember the ad, Spring - tWi'Ch a Sigh? for 9VGI'Y0ne but her . In this same decade the total production of cigarettes in the United States more than doubled, In 1921 Dazey high school captured its second Barnes County Basketball championship. .Unquestionably the style of basketball has changed a great deal and the style of ball played in 1921 may be illdged by the heft Of Such men as Leo Sfowman, Ben Nelson and the Olson UOYS llllder 0021011 Ad-01DY1S0I1.' .M '- The years 'that f01l0w.ed were good years, the enrollment in the school was high and activities were on the uptake. It was still a difficult job to operate an athlelic teani, other than baseball, on a Paying baSiS- The C1'0WdS had H01 Yet made up their mind to support the game of basketball. In other ficlds, progress A,-vw-xA,-eA,.. vtA,veAAAAA,vvxAAAfv

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. .. .x N .fs-wAAAAAAm A, -A,AA AQ,yA,, . . AAAAAAAMAAAAAAAA Tl101'0 are 111-any incidents which probably shc.uld be recorded about this era. For insl-ance, there was the overnight stay nt the Grand Prairie school after playing basketball there. Grand Prairie served lunch after the game and when it turned out that they would have to stay the night it was discovered to the dismay of all that Beanie Olson and friend had eaten the provisions which were left 6170111 the lunch. The following morning, Mrs Steve Noxon fed them all prior to their departure on the long trip home by sleigh. It seemed that on the 'trip home. one of the boys hugged the stove a mite too much and consequently that character one Art Hanson, was deposited in the snowbank somewhere in 'the vicinity of Mad- sven's and forced to trundle the rest of the way to town. - Then there was the incident of 'the split dress. Evelyn Hagglund, it seems, had the misfortune 'to split her sister's dress while at the county l0lU'Uam9Ht- It was necessary for Henrietta. Rasmussen, at school in Valley City, to Came to the rescue- It might also be well to re-affirm the fact that George Fat Lar- Son really did master his penmanship under the able tutelage of NUSS S0d9l'bilCk- The preceeding event 'did not have the earth-slzvalting effect on -the nation as the death 0f'Floyd Collins , which happened February 17, 1925, cr the Florida real estate boom. Another event which claimed national publicity in 1925 was the famous Scopes Trial, which pitted the genius of W, J. Bryan against -the cunning of Clar- GHCS Darrow, to determine whether a teacher should have the right to teach the -theory of evolution in the public schools. The result, of course, was the defeat of Bryan and the establishment of the freedom cf the teacher. ti-. , . V ,Leaping zrapidly through the years we. will rass quickly over the IJY10H0H10Hd of Red Grange, ,No 77, and Jack Dempsey, whose career had it beginning a- gainst' Jess 'Willard in Toledo, July 4, 11919, and ex-tended on through the '20's: and just mention the famous Dempsey-Tunncy bout for which one hundred and forty-five thousand people paid two and one-half million dollars to see and five Americans dropped dead from excitement at their radios and the famous long count took place. Then we ought to remember a man who had the ladies of the decade swooning in a way that would put Frankie to shameg he was, Rudolph Alfonzo Raff-aele Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'An-tonguolla, talias Ru- dolph Valentinoj. His death at the age of thirty-one caused heaven only knows what and inspired the song, There's a New Star in Heaven To-night . It would not be fair to overlook the much publicized Iindberg flight which began on the morning of May 20, 1927, although it was not the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic by air. For Dazey High School this was the era Of William MacDonald and I am sure that the old grads will recognize the implication earlier in this article in regard to the sillouette at the west window. The period was more than that tho. In September of 1927 a cl-ass entered old 'DHS which was to make 'athletic history. For the next four years Dazey dominated the 'track activity ln Barnes County. It was the era, of the famous .one-man track 'team and the fpowerfulx'baskethall ag- gregations from DHS. In the years 1930 and 1931 the group published a yearbook which m-any cf you possess, but a little re-cap on 'the year 1931 would not be out of orde'r. M. H. Peterson coached the boys who walked through the county .AA,,,vx,.----- --- ----------- - - - - v - .1-. - - .fv-. - - , - - - - - - .1-.-.-vv-v-v-,-. ,-,-.-,-,-,-,Av-,,-v.,.,,,,,,.v.'.,.,,,,,s,.v.v.'.'.'.,,.v.J,v.v.,-,vvvv-,.-.v.gA,.v.,.,